Survey on the influence of nursing major students'thanatopsis and values to hospice care
- VernacularTitle:护理大学生进行临终关怀教育前的调查分析
- Author:
Liping LIU
;
Bin WU
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Nursing students;
Death education;
Hospice care
- From:
Chinese Journal of Medical Education Research
2006;0(07):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To search the status quo of students'thanatopsis in order to push focused education on terminal care to the nursing major students.Metheds To distribute home-made questionnaire to 268 nursing students.Results students who cannot talk about death normally account for 21.3 percent;who never considered death or unnecessary to consider death account for 12.9 percent of the total;who considered a lot account for 10 percent;who cannot handle terminally ill account for 74.3 percent;and who prefer self-suicide when suffered defeat account for 4.9 percent.Conclusion Nursing students have insufficient ideas of death,and they need to think deeply about the meaning of death and to nurture a positive outlook on death in order to get a correct terminal care education.
